Smoking worse than shooting up smack?

The Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson is aghast and agape following comments by the Chiefly Katy Gallagher about her priorities at the Monaro Marriott:

In extraordinary comments from the Health Minister of the ACT, the new Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher, has labelled smoking as a greater health problem than the use or prevalence of illicit drugs in the prison, Shadow Health Minister Jeremy Hanson said today.

‘I should say that out of the Burnet report and there is a lot of interest around illicit drugs. The most concerning thing for me around that report was the level of smoking, and if there is a health issue in the jail it is smoking, and for me it’s how to we deal with that, how do we encourage people to stop smoking.

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Heroin can be made to be just as pure as the aspirin or paracetamol you buy at the chemist. I am not talking about street heroin, I am talking about the heroin that is currently being used for medicinal purposes overseas.

Heroin is derived from morphine (hence the name diacetylmorphine) so if you are going to argue with me about the purity of medical grade morphine then you probably also believe in chemtrails, fake moon landings and that the carbon tax is a jewish plot to drive up the price of diamonds.

There really is no such thing as 100% pure heroin – it is simply impossible. Your correct with your naming of it – and there are many stages of extraction. Medical grade heroin just cannot be 100% pure becuase of the extraction process. Heroin for such use is grown in a lot of places (some of which surprise you!) but eh extraction issue remains.

Now, while I can’t speak with authority about fake moon landings, diamond conspiracies and the like, I am interested in your views on the ‘grassy knoll’…………………..what do you think??

The poppies are mostly grown in Tasmania aren’t they? I couldn’t find any sources one way or the other with regards to 100% purity, but I’m sure it would be so close to 100% as to be indistinguishable (but let’s not get into an argument about 0.99999…= 1)

Sounds good (it was a good exercise though – I had to hit the books again from Uni as well as some quick calls to a couple of collegues!). Gets the brain going!

Heroin can be made to be just as pure as the aspirin or paracetamol you buy at the chemist. I am not talking about street heroin, I am talking about the heroin that is currently being used for medicinal purposes overseas.

Heroin is derived from morphine (hence the name diacetylmorphine) so if you are going to argue with me about the purity of medical grade morphine then you probably also believe in chemtrails, fake moon landings and that the carbon tax is a jewish plot to drive up the price of diamonds.

There really is no such thing as 100% pure heroin – it is simply impossible. Your correct with your naming of it – and there are many stages of extraction. Medical grade heroin just cannot be 100% pure becuase of the extraction process. Heroin for such use is grown in a lot of places (some of which surprise you!) but eh extraction issue remains.

Now, while I can’t speak with authority about fake moon landings, diamond conspiracies and the like, I am interested in your views on the ‘grassy knoll’…………………..what do you think??

The poppies are mostly grown in Tasmania aren’t they? I couldn’t find any sources one way or the other with regards to 100% purity, but I’m sure it would be so close to 100% as to be indistinguishable (but let’s not get into an argument about 0.99999…= 1)

Heroin can be made to be just as pure as the aspirin or paracetamol you buy at the chemist. I am not talking about street heroin, I am talking about the heroin that is currently being used for medicinal purposes overseas.

Heroin is derived from morphine (hence the name diacetylmorphine) so if you are going to argue with me about the purity of medical grade morphine then you probably also believe in chemtrails, fake moon landings and that the carbon tax is a jewish plot to drive up the price of diamonds.

There really is no such thing as 100% pure heroin – it is simply impossible. Your correct with your naming of it – and there are many stages of extraction. Medical grade heroin just cannot be 100% pure becuase of the extraction process. Heroin for such use is grown in a lot of places (some of which surprise you!) but eh extraction issue remains.

Now, while I can’t speak with authority about fake moon landings, diamond conspiracies and the like, I am interested in your views on the ‘grassy knoll’…………………..what do you think??

and providing clean substance and apparatus is one step of a holistic approach to treatment that would of course also include behaviour modification training, controlled withdrawal, stress management and general education

Heroin can be made to be just as pure as the aspirin or paracetamol you buy at the chemist. I am not talking about street heroin, I am talking about the heroin that is currently being used for medicinal purposes overseas.

Heroin is derived from morphine (hence the name diacetylmorphine) so if you are going to argue with me about the purity of medical grade morphine then you probably also believe in chemtrails, fake moon landings and that the carbon tax is a jewish plot to drive up the price of diamonds.

Aside from the fact that there is no such thing as ‘pure heroin’ (it simply doesn’t exist) your are trying to bait us aren’t you? I mean, really……………………….

It does exist. It is used, at a pharmaceutical grade, in medicine in the UK.

Sorry PM – but no. Heroin in any form does not have 100% purity. It can’t. There are always ‘impurities’ within the substance, no matter how pritine the conditions. On a street level, ‘pure heroin’ is heroin that is between 88 to 94% pure – you don’t get any higher than that.

For what you are talking about – the purity may increase – but it is still impossible to get 100% purity.

Aside from the fact that there is no such thing as ‘pure heroin’ (it simply doesn’t exist) your are trying to bait us aren’t you? I mean, really……………………….

It does exist. It is used, at a pharmaceutical grade, in medicine in the UK.

Sorry PM – but no. Heroin in any form does not have 100% purity. It can’t. There are always ‘impurities’ within the substance, no matter how pritine the conditions. On a street level, ‘pure heroin’ is heroin that is between 88 to 94% pure – you don’t get any higher than that.

For what you are talking about – the purity may increase – but it is still impossible to get 100% purity.

Aside from the fact that there is no such thing as ‘pure heroin’ (it simply doesn’t exist) your are trying to bait us aren’t you? I mean, really……………………….

It does exist. It is used, at a pharmaceutical grade, in medicine in the UK.

Sorry PM – but no. Heroin in any form does not have 100% purity. It can’t. There are always ‘impurities’ within the substance, no matter how pritine the conditions. On a street level, ‘pure heroin’ is heroin that is between 88 to 94% pure – you don’t get any higher than that.

For what you are talking about – the purity may increase – but it is still impossible to get 100% purity.

I can’t understand why the government can’t treat people affected by drugs in prison, I was watching a programme last night, where in England it showed a women’s prison, these prisoners were able to go into detox and receive other forms of treatment.
Why can’t we do this here? Instead of giving them clean needles, it defeats the purpose of locking them up, as soon as these drug affected prisoners get out, they will be doing crime once again to feed their addiction.

Heroin (diacetylmorphine) itself isn’t actually as bad as people make out – it’s the impurities, addictiveness and overdose potential that causes the damage. A person could theoretically take pure heroin in a controlled environment their whole lives without suffering any ill-effects.

Aside from the fact that there is no such thing as ‘pure heroin’ (it simply doesn’t exist) your are trying to bait us aren’t you? I mean, really……………………….

Heroin (diacetylmorphine) itself isn’t actually as bad as people make out – it’s the impurities, addictiveness and overdose potential that causes the damage. A person could theoretically take pure heroin in a controlled environment their whole lives without suffering any ill-effects.